Security News > 2023 > June > BlackCat ransomware gang behind Reddit breach from February
The BlackCat ransomware gang is behind a February cyberattack on Reddit, where the threat actors claim to have stolen 80GB of data from the company.
On February 9th, Reddit disclosed that its systems were hacked on February 5th after an employee fell victim to a phishing attack.
As first spotted by Dominic Alvieri and shared with BleepingComputer, the ALPHV ransomware operation, more commonly known as BlackCat, now claims to be behind the February 5th cyberattack on Reddit.
While Reddit declined to comment about BlackCat's post, BleepingComputer has been able to confirm that this is the same attack disclosed by Reddit in February.
While the threat actors behind the Western Digital attack initially claimed not to have a name, screenshots of the stolen data were leaked on the ALPHV data leak site, with the threat actors taunting the company about the attack.
Western Digital sent data breach notifications in May, warning online store customers that their data was stolen during the attack.
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